Human Quotes

22022 quotes by 8110 authors

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations. — George Nelson
Practically everyone now bemoans Western man's sense of alienation, lack of community, and inability to find ways of organizing society for human ends. We have… — Jean Baker Miller
...there is an optimal balance, depending on the manner of man's life, between the density of human population and the tolerances of nature. This balance,… — George F. Kennan
Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have… — Dalai Lama
War over water would be an ultimate obscenity. And yet, unfortunately it is conceivable... Water has been a source over so many years of erosion… — Queen Noor of Jordan
A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not… — Margaret Fuller
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. — Carl Sagan
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of… — Harold S. Kushner
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.… — Walt Kelly
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of… — Thomas Jefferson
In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into… — Anton Chekhov
Somebody does somethin' stupid, that's human. They don't stop when they see it's wrong, that's a fool. — Elvis Presley
Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself. — Elvis Presley
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand
All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still… — David Hume
Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions. Monkeys redden from passion but it would take an overwhelming amount of evidence to… — Charles Darwin
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. — Abraham Maslow
Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple… — Friedrich Engels
Under the Providence of God, our means of education are the grand machinery by which the 'raw material' of human nature can be worked up… — Horace Mann
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience… — Niels Bohr

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